Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.